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Message-Id: <200711131008.56627.a1426z@gawab.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:08:56 +0300
From: Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: top lies ?
kloczek wrote:
> Some data showed by top command looks like completly trashed.
> Fragment from top output:
>
> Mem: 2075784k total, 2053352k used, 22432k free, 19260k buffers
> Swap: 2096472k total, 136k used, 2096336k free, 1335080k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP nFLT
> WCHAN COMMAND 14515 mysql 20 0 1837m 563m 4132 S 39 27.8
> 27:14.20 1.2g 18 - mysqld
>
> How it is possible that swap ussage is 136k and swapped out portion of (in
> this case) mysqld process is 1.2g ?
Welcome to OverCommit, aka OOM-nirvana.
Try this:
# echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio
But make sure you have enough swap.
Thanks!
--
Al
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